Introduction

You can do it...honest

HTML is very easy to learn and you are about to find that out. With this easy to follow tutorial you will be able to create your first web page in just a few minutes, really.

What You Need

A browser and a simple text editor such as Notepad that comes with Windows is all that's needed to build a website. Yup, Notepad, even for fancy looking websites, for Mac users there's TextEdit.

Making An HTML File

Before we begin the lessons you need to know how to turn a regular text file into an HTML file. An HTML file is where you write HTML code. It also contains text that appears on your webpage. Each webpage has it's own HTML file.

In the text editor choose Save As, give the file a name and add
the .html extension to it, for example:

mypage.html

The .html extension turns a regular text file into an HTML file and makes it viewable as a webpage in browsers. It only needs to be added
at the time you create the file, once it's made simply save the file each time you edit the code.

The file name of your HTML code can be anything you want but you must name the homepage index.html or else your site's web address will not work.

The saved code can be opened and edited from within the text editor (make sure that "All Files" is selected from the drop down menu in the editor's dialog box).

DID YOU KNOW...?
You can register a website address (called a domain in tech talk) even before you have a website.
In fact the longer you wait the more difficult it will be to get one that isn't already taken.
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DID YOU KNOW...?
There is more to building a website than just making it. It also needs
web hosting so that it can be seen on the internet.
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